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MSU students scoop Jordan community engagement prize

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Midlands State University’s Generations for Peace (GFP) Club beat teams from 50 other institutions of higher learning in different countries and scooped first prize in the Generations for Peace Samsung Advanced Training Awards held in Amman, Jordan, last Wednesday

Midlands State University’s Generations for Peace (GFP) Club beat teams from 50 other institutions of higher learning in different countries and scooped first prize in the Generations for Peace Samsung Advanced Training Awards held in Amman, Jordan, last Wednesday.

BY Stephen Chadenga

MSU won in the sustainability category, while Macedonia won in the quality category, with Lebanon getting the innovation award and Tunisia, impact.

The local students made a video submission, which highlighted the different activities they were undertaking at the Zvishavane and the Gweru main campus.

“Under sustainability (category), teams had to highlight how long the positive impacts of their activities would last, show evidence of community ownership and engagement of key stakeholders as well as the cost effectiveness,” MSU said in a statement

According to MSU, the department of film and theatre arts second-year students, Everson Kudakwashe Chieza, Donald Chidamba and Thamusanqa Gumpo edited and produced the video.

Second-year students in the departments of English and Communication and marketing management, Hazel Halima and Talent Chitepo ensured that club activities were documented and marketed respectively.

Generations For Peace is a leading global non-profit peace-building organisation founded by Prince Feisal Al Hussein and Sarah Kabbani in 2007, which is dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grassroots levels gives opportunities to youths to transform communities experiencing different forms of conflict and violence.